METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CENTRALIZED NOTIFICATIONS TO AN ADMINISTRATOR

• US 20130154916A1
• Filed: 12/19/2011
• Published: 06/20/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Ramaswamy, Sanjay, Jia, Jimin, Ren, Qi, Liang, Wenjie, Forney, Michael
• Granted Patent: US 9,741,003 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3051 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring the configuration of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring the presence of processing resources, peripherals, I/O links, software programs verification or detection of system hardware configuration G06F11/2247
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0633 Workflow analysis
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/04 Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation

Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a user interface that enables an administrator to monitor the status of one or more long-running processes executing on a system. According to one or more embodiments, information about the long-running processes is received, analyzed and converted into a single format. This information is then stored in a storage device in the single format. In response to a command request periodically received from a user interface, summary information about the one or more long-running processes is provided to, and displayed on, the user interface. Upon receipt of a user selection of at least a portion of the summary information, the user interface issues a second command request that is similar to the first command request, but includes additional parameters, to retrieve additional information about the selected summary information. Once the additional information is received, the additional information is presented on the user interface.

Claims

1. A method for providing information for a plurality of long-running processes, the method comprising:

periodically receiving information about the plurality of long-running processes, wherein information about a first long-running process of the plurality of long-running processes is in a first format and wherein information about a second long-running process of the plurality of long-running processes is in a second format;

formatting the information about the first long-running process and the information about the second long-running process into a single unified format;

storing the formatted information from the first long-running process and the second long-running process in a storage device; and

periodically providing summary information about at least one of the plurality of long-running processes to a user interface, the summary information including at least a portion of the formatted information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein periodically providing summary information comprises providing summary information to the user interface in response to a first command request periodically received from the user interface.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising providing additional information about the at least one of the plurality of long-running processes to the user interface in response to a second command request received from the user interface.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein both of the first command request and the second command request have the same format.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the second command request includes one or more parameters that correspond to the formatted information about one or more of the first long-running process or the second long-running process.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating an electronic message that includes the summary information and communicating the electronic message to a user.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the electronic message is one of (i) an electronic mail message, (ii) a Short Message Service message, or (iii) a Multimedia Message Service message.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising overwriting the formatted information in the storage device that exceeds a time threshold.

9. A computer-readable storage medium encoding computer executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, performs a method for providing information about a plurality of long-running processes, the method comprising:

periodically receiving information about the plurality of long-running processes, wherein information about a first long-running process of the plurality of long-running processes is in a first format and wherein information about a second long-running process of the plurality of long-running processes is in a second format;

formatting the information about the first long-running process and the information about the second long-running process into a single unified format;

storing the formatted information from the first long-running process and the second long-running process in a storage device;

periodically providing summary information about at least one of the plurality of long-running processes to a user interface in response to receiving a first command request from the user interface, the summary information including at least a portion of the formatted information; and

in response to receiving a second command request from the user interface, providing additional information to the user interface, wherein the additional information corresponds to the at least one of the plurality of long-running processes for which the summary information was provided.

10. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the second command request has the same format as the first command request.

11. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the second command request includes one or more parameters that correspond to the formatted information about one or more of the first long-running process or the second long-running process.

12. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, further comprising generating an electronic message that includes the summary information and communicating the electronic message to a user.

13. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the electronic message is one of (i) an electronic mail message, (ii) a Short Message Service message, or (iii) a Multimedia Message Service message.

14. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, further comprising overwriting the formatted information in the storage device that exceeds a time threshold.

15. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the storage device is configured to format the information about the first long-running process and the information about the second long-running process into the single unified format

16. A computer system for accessing a content item, the system comprising:

one or more processors; and

a memory coupled to the one or more processors, the memory for storing instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform a method for providing information about one or more long-running processes, the method comprising;

periodically receiving information about the plurality of long-running processes, wherein information about a first long-running process of the plurality of long-running processes is in a first format and wherein information about a second long-running process of the plurality of long-running processes is in a second format;

formatting the information about the first long-running process and the information about the second long-running process into a single unified format;

storing the formatted information from the first long-running process and the second long-running process in a storage device; and

periodically providing summary information about at least one of the plurality of long-running processes to a user interface, the summary information including at least a portion of the formatted information.

17. The computer system of claim 16, wherein periodically providing summary information comprises providing summary information to the user interface in response to a first command request periodically received from the user interface.

18. The computer system of claim 16, further comprising instructions for providing additional information about the at least one of the plurality of long-running processes to the user interface in response to a second command request received from the user interface.

19. The computer system of claim 16, wherein both of the first command request and the second command request have the same format.

20. The computer system of claim 16, wherein the second command request includes one or more parameters that correspond to the formatted information about one or more of the first long-running process or the second long-running process